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Hernia Repair Is One of the Most Frequently Performed Surgeries in the World | 10/12/2018
In spite of Ethicon's Physiomesh withdrawal and with billions at stake, the market for hernia repair medical devices is likely to expand, not contract...READ MORE
Doctors should not be blindly trusted to do what is best for their patients | 10/3/2018
It is the patient's responsibility to check with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) online to see if there have been excessive complaints about the device their physician is planning to put into their body...READ MORE
Physiomesh Substantially Similar to Other Failed Medical Devices | 10/1/2018
The FDA's fast-track approval process allows dangerous medical devices like Physiomesh on the market...READ MORE
Physiomesh Can Degrade and Break Into Pieces During Attempted Revision Surgeries | 9/28/2018
Trying to remove Physiomesh can have painful and potentially life-threatening consequences...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Polypropylene May Not be Biocompatible | 9/27/2018
Scientific Studies show that Polypropylene, a synthetic, petroleum-based plastic, is attacked by the human body as a foreign invader breaks down, shrinks and deteriorates...READ MORE
Ethicon's Physiomesh Composite Mesh Joins the Transvaginal Mesh as Recalled Failures | 9/22/2018
All that is required for a medical device to receive FDA approval is that it is substantially similar to another medical device that has already received approval...READ MORE
Patients Can Report Their Medical Device Problems to an FDA Online Database For Everyone to See | 9/20/2018
Ethicon Physiomesh patient reports to the MAUDE database may have forced Ethicon to voluntarily withdraw the medical device from the market and saved lives...READ MORE
The Problem With The FDA's 501 (k) Fast-Track Approval Process Is That It Bypasses The Testing Usually Required Of A New Medical Device | 9/18/2018
Doctors that recommend the device to patients assume that rigorous pre-market testing has occurred however 99% of the time a new device like the Physiomesh Composite hernia device is not tested at all...READ MORE
Johnson & Johnson Could Have Been More Forthcoming in Withdrawing Physiomesh | 9/14/2018
Ethicon Inc., maker of Physiomesh Flexible Composite Hernia Mesh, and parent company Johnson & Johnson dragged their feet before eventually pulling the defective product from the market...READ MORE
Ethicon Will Not Reintroduce Physiomesh | 9/10/2018
Something must be seriously wrong for an industry leader like Johnson & Johnson to forgo billions in revenue and take a medical device off of the market...READ MORE
While Hernias Are Thought To Be A Men's Health Issue, Women Also Get Them And Can Be Adversely Affected By The Malfunctioning Physiomesh | 9/5/2018
There are over 200,000 hernia surgeries performed every year and men are 25 times more likely than women to need it...READ MORE
Doctors Are Surprised With Lax FDA Approval Requirements | 8/27/2018
Surgically implanted medical devices have the potential to cause serious injury and death to patients but little is required of them by the US Food and Drug Administration before going to market...READ MORE
Polypropylene In Physiomesh May Have Never Been Tested | 8/24/2018
A flaw in the FDA approval system may have allowed faulty medical devices like Physiomesh to come to market...READ MORE
Ethicon Fails To PinPoint the Reason for Physiomesh Failures | 8/21/2018
By failing to determine the exact reason Physiomesh fails, hernia mesh surgeons and their patients are left in the dark as to how to fix the problem...READ MORE
Physiomesh May Have Been Compared With Transvaginal Mesh to Receive FDA Fast-Track Approval | 8/14/2018
Physiomesh may have been given FDA approval based on its similarities to a device that has failed and pulled from the market...READ MORE
Physiomesh Failure Started at the FDA | 8/13/2018
Medical Devices Such As The Ethicon Physiomesh Were Brought To Market Using The FDA's Flawed, Outdated 501 (K) Fast Track Approval Procedure...READ MORE
Herniamed Registry Data Convinced Ethicon to Pull Physiomesh | 8/9/2018
Herniamed, an internet-based registry for outcome research of hernia surgeries, cites a high percentage of Physiomesh revision surgeries...READ MORE
Similarities Between Ethicon’s Physiomesh and Transvaginal Mesh Medical Devices | 8/7/2018
The same mesh design, the same support features, and the same device malfunctions make experts question the FDA's fast-track approval process...READ MORE
Physiomesh Failures Could be Ongoing Nightmare | 8/2/2018
If the polypropylene component of Physiomesh turns out to be the cause of its malfunction, tens of thousands of patients could be at risk...READ MORE
The US National Institute of Health's Physiomesh Polypropylene Warning | 7/30/2018
Ethicon and Johnson & Johnson ignored warnings from the US National Institute of Health stating polypropylene does not belong within the human body...READ MORE
Physiomesh is Voluntarily Withdrawn From The Market | 7/27/2018
When billions of dollars in profits are on the line, the decision to walk away from the market cannot help but draw suspicion...READ MORE
Ethicon and Johnson & Johnson Inc. Fear a Flood of Physiomesh Litigation | 7/25/2018
Johnson & Johnson may be looking to limit their legal exposure by voluntarily pulling Physiomesh...READ MORE
Traditional Hernia Repair Doctors Think Physiomesh May Be Unnecessary | 7/23/2018
Old-fashioned hernia repair surgeons are left cleaning up the mess left by the faulty, malfunctioning Ethicon Physiomesh hernia repair device...READ MORE
One Hernia Repair Expert Would Never Use Physiomesh | 7/19/2018
Physiomesh and other composite hernia repair mesh devices are looked upon as little more than a gimmick by experienced, seasoned hernia repair specialists...READ MORE
Scientific Studies of Physiomesh Polypropylene | 7/17/2018
Polypropylene failure has been confirmed by scientific studies conducted by US Government at the National Institute of health...READ MORE
Human Body May Reject Plastic-Based Medical Devices | 7/12/2018
It is hard to believe that the FDA would allow Physiomesh to come to market given the problems Ethicon Inc., had with their Transvaginal mesh, a similar, polypropylene-based medical device...READ MORE
Ethicon Will Not Reintroduce Physiomesh | 7/9/2018
Something must be seriously wrong for an industry leader like Johnson & Johnson to forgo billions in revenue and take a medical device off of the market...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Lawsuits Pile Up | 7/5/2018
Ethicon Physiomesh trials to start next year and thousands more are waiting in the wings...READ MORE
Physiomesh Withdrawn From Market to Limit Ethicon's Liability | 6/30/2018
When a medical device manufacturer voluntarily pulls a billion-dollar product from the market you know that something must be very, very wrong...READ MORE
Court Orders Surgeons to Preserve Physiomesh After Removal | 6/27/2018
Surgeons must preserve the Ethicon Physiomesh Composite Hernia Repair Device after it is removed as evidence of its deterioration within the human body...READ MORE
Thousands of Physiomesh Patients Are Left With Constant Pain | 6/22/2018
Instead of relatively straightforward hernia repair surgery, Physiomesh patients are left suffering from chronic pain, infections, abdominal weakness, and tissue damage requiring revision surgery...READ MORE
Physiomesh Hernia Repair Trial Underway | 6/18/2018
Physiomesh trials have begun in an attempt to hold Ethicon Inc., and Johnson & Johnson accountable for bringing a faulty medical device to market without first making sure it was safe...READ MORE
Polypropylene Rejection by the Human Body May Causes Physiomesh Failure | 6/13/2018
When a foreign object such as a petroleum-based plastic is placed inside the human body there is the likelihood that it will be attacked and rejected by the natural response mechanisms of the human body...READ MORE
Ethicon Withdraws Physiomesh From The Market | 6/8/2018
Faced with the likelihood of yet another expensive product recall, Ethicon voluntarily withdrew their Physiomesh product permanently from the worldwide hernia repair market...READ MORE
Ethicon Takes Physiomesh Taken Off The Market ... Permanently | 6/5/2018
Rather than test, repair and relaunch Physiomesh, Ethicon has chosen to permanently pull the product...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Trial Scheduled To Proceed | 5/28/2018
Physiomesh Composite hernia repair patients eagerly await the first bellwether trial...READ MORE
Polypropylene Could be The Cause of Physiomesh Failure | 5/24/2018
Physiomesh is not the only mesh repair product made from Polypropylene that had to be recalled due to unforeseen complications...READ MORE
Ethicon Pulls Physiomesh From the US Market | 5/21/2018
Ethicon will not admit the exact reason so many Physiomesh patients require additional surgery...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Migration Issue | 5/16/2018
The biggest problem with Ethicon Physiomesh Composite Mesh is that it does not stay put on the abdominal hole or bulge it was intended to repair...READ MORE
Physiomesh Patients Subjected to Revision Surgery | 5/13/2018
An abnormally high number of Ethicon Physiomesh patients are forced to have the device removed and their hernia repair surgery performed using traditional methods...READ MORE
A Market Withdrawal of Physiomesh Heads Off Total Recall | 5/8/2018
Physiomesh issues a voluntary market withdrawal of Physiomesh, having had been forced to totally recall a similar product years earlier and pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages...READ MORE
Market Withdrawal or Compulsory Recall | 5/5/2018
The difference between a company voluntary market withdrawal and a total government recall is a matter of semantics...READ MORE
Johnson and Johnson Pulls Physiomesh From the Market | 5/1/2018
Physiomesh Composite Hernia Mesh is proving to be as flawed a concept as the transvaginal mesh Johnson & Johnson tried to sell years earlier...READ MORE
Lawsuits Against Ethicon Consolidated in Multi-District Litigation | 4/30/2018
Those injured by Physiomesh Composite Hernia Mesh can join Multidistrict Litigation and benefit from a more comprehensive discovery process...READ MORE
Do You Qualify to File a Physiomesh Claim | 4/27/2018
Those who have been injured by the Ethicon Physiomesh hernia repair composite mesh and have had to undergo a second surgery may qualify to sue Johnson & Johnson for compensation...READ MORE
Polypropylene in Physiomesh Causes Device Failure | 4/25/2018
The polypropylene found in Ethicon's Physiomesh is the likely reason so many fail and have to be surgically removed...READ MORE
Facts Pertaining to Hernias and the Ethicon Physiomesh Hernia Repair Composite Mesh | 4/23/2018
Doctors can no longer use Ethicon Physiomesh to repair hernias because of the company's market withdrawal of the product...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Was Not Adequately Tested Before Being Allowed on The Market | 4/16/2018
The Ethicon Physiomesh Composite Hernia Repair Mesh skipped clinical trials and was allowed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be rushed to market ...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Pulled From The Market | 4/13/2018
Patient complaints and government warnings have prompted a recall and a cessation of selling the Ethicon Physiomesh Composite Hernia Mesh...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh Recalled | 4/9/2018
Millions of people who have had hernia repair surgery in the last decade are worried that their surgery may have been a failure...READ MORE
The Ethicon Physiomesh Pulled From The Market | 4/3/2018
Due to high failure rates requiring revision surgery, Ethicon has been forced to voluntarily recall the Physiomesh hernia repair device...READ MORE
A Summary of Physiomesh Hernia Repair Mesh Negligence | 8/21/2017
Here are the main categories that those who have undergone Physiomesh hernia repair surgery should be concerned with...READ MORE
People are Suing Ethicon, Maker of Physiomesh and Johnson & Johnson Subsidiary | 8/14/2017
Multi-district litigation is consolidating the hundreds of claims against Ethicon maker of Physiomesh hernia repair mesh...READ MORE
Urgent Field Safety Notice for Physiomesh Hernia Repair Mesh | 8/7/2017
The Swiss field safety notice has caused Ethicon to issue a US market withdrawal of the Physiomesh hernia repair mesh...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Legal Questions | 7/28/2017
Physiomesh lawsuit lawyers answer the most pressing questions and concerns failed hernia mesh victims might have...READ MORE
Ethicon Physiomesh Hernia Repair is Flawed | 7/21/2017
Ethicon's Physiomesh implanted in hernia patients is failing in record numbers...READ MORE
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